Any thoughts on what's going on here? I've done a bit of googling around and I can't seem to find anything definitive.
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I'd say 13 hours sitting at 50℅ is great. How much battery life do you normally get? Or what do you expect to get?
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You wouldn't happen to be running GEL or a variant of it, would you? I'm having the same issue and I'm running GEL and I think that's causing the "wakelock" that makes Android OS appear as a battery hog.
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I'd say 13 hours sitting at 50℅ is great. How much battery life do you normally get? Or what do you expect to get?
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Sitting at about 1:45 screen-on time, which is pretty damn good. Today was actually a better day, other days have been much worse.
balleron24z said:
You wouldn't happen to be running GEL or a variant of it, would you? I'm having the same issue and I'm running GEL and I think that's causing the "wakelock" that makes Android OS appear as a battery hog.
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Yes, I am running GEL--interesting. Might switch over to Apex or something and see how tomorrow goes.
I've been running GEL and I keep getting mixed results. I'm about ready to try something else.
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I'm going to do the same. When I first ran 4.4 on my phone I hit 3.5 hrs screen on time no problem. Now I'm hitting like 1.75-2 which isn't bad but isn't the 24 hour battery Moto says
tekhna said:
Sitting at about 1:45 screen-on time, which is pretty damn good. Today was actually a better day, other days have been much worse.
Yes, I am running GEL--interesting. Might switch over to Apex or something and see how tomorrow goes.
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Android OS will appear to take all kinds of battery when the phone isn't doing anything..... But after you rack up some good screen time it "usually" drops way down in the percentage. Your screen shot shows you haven't used the phone much... So Android OS will be high.... Cause not much else has been using battery.
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I've been running GEL and I keep getting mixed results. I'm about ready to try something else.
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After a bit of Googling around I'm wondering if maybe the culprit is GEL's "Ok Google" voice prompt? Apparently it can cause some wakelocks and it's redundant on our phone anyway.
kj2112 said:
Android OS will appear to take all kinds of battery when the phone isn't doing anything..... But after you rack up some good screen time it "usually" drops way down in the percentage. Your screen shot shows you haven't used the phone much... So Android OS will be high.... Cause not much else has been using battery.
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Well I had nearly two hours of screen-on at that point so I wonder what much phone use is to you? And even if it drops relative to the screen it's still consuming a lot of power absolutely.
Also it appears that "Android OS" isn't any one process but "Provides basic operating system services, message passing, and inter-process communication on the device." So the actual culprit might be hard to track down if it's a rogue program routing its wakelocks through Android OS.
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Android OS will appear to take all kinds of battery when the phone isn't doing anything..... But after you rack up some good screen time it "usually" drops way down in the percentage. Your screen shot shows you haven't used the phone much... So Android OS will be high.... Cause not much else has been using battery.
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As I understand it, the percentages shown for each entry will always total 100%. If the only process using your battery was the OS, then it would show 100%. That would not mean the OS is a battery hog. Just that of all the possible users of the battery, the OS was currently the only one.
A better way to evaluate the total battery picture is to determine the overall drain per hour. In the example shown above, you are draining at an average rate of 3.5%/hour. Since Android is shown as 26%, that means Android is using the battery at an average rate of 0.92%/hour.
By comparison, I have every background process disabled that I can easily disable. I show a standby drain of about 1.2%/hour. Android is showing currently a discharge rate of 19%. That translates to a discharge rate of 0.228%/hour for a phone in standby with nothing going on. Doesn't sound too bad to me.... Android in your actively used phone is using the battery at a rate of about 3X that of mine in standby.
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As I understand it, the percentages shown for each entry will always total 100%. If the only process using your battery was the OS, then it would show 100%. That would not mean the OS is a battery hog. Just that of all the possible users of the battery, the OS was currently the only one.
A better way to evaluate the total battery picture is to determine the overall drain per hour. In the example shown above, you are draining at an average rate of 3.5%/hour. Since Android is shown as 26%, that means Android is using the battery at an average rate of 0.92%/hour.
By comparison, I have every background process disabled that I can easily disable. I show a standby drain of about 1.2%/hour. Android is showing currently a discharge rate of 19%. That translates to a discharge rate of 0.228%/hour for a phone in standby with nothing going on. Doesn't sound too bad to me.... Android in your actively used phone is using the battery at a rate of about 3X that of mine in standby.
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Yup. My phone is debloated to crap, Greenified and everything Motorola related is frozen... Except active notification. I get great battery life and my overnight, untouched phone standby is around 1 percent per hour.
I'd say that's pretty good. I've seen better idle loss than mine, tho can't explain how they got that... I've compared with others and with similar setups, they just get better idle loss for some reason. But I can live with my 1 percent per hour because I still get well over 24 hours total battery life and 5 to 6 screen on hours.
By the end of my battery life my "Android OS" is usually around 10 percent in gsam. Half way through my charge it's usually double that. But it lowers as time goes on.
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Yup. My phone is debloated to crap, Greenified and everything Motorola related is frozen... Except active notification. I get great battery life and my overnight, untouched phone standby is around 1 percent per hour.
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Interesting that my 1.2%/hr standby drain is almost as low as yours. I am not rooted or greenified. I just made sure nothing except contacts and calendar auto-syncs. I also use DS Battery Saver to put most apps to sleep and turn off data and WiFi when the phone is in standby.
I have been avoiding trying to root due to the complex process and possibly creating issues. It looks like maybe it would not buy me much better battery life than I get now.
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Interesting that my 1.2%/hr standby drain is almost as low as yours. I am not rooted or greenified. I just made sure nothing except contacts and calendar auto-syncs. I also use DS Battery Saver to put most apps to sleep and turn off data and WiFi when the phone is in standby.
I have been avoiding trying to root due to the complex process and possibly creating issues. It looks like maybe it would not buy me much better battery life than I get now.
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You don't have to root to have good battery. But for those having issues, you usually have to have root to do anything about it. Lol
The "should I root" debate goes beyond battery reasons tho. Getting rid of ads, removing system apps you don't want, doing proper backups, seeing what your battery is doing indepth (since you need root on 4.4 to do that), customizing your ui..... All benefits of rooting. And controlling your battery drain also.
Some people seem to have great battery out of the box.... And some don't. So if yours is good, and none of the above matters to you, then there's probably no reason to root.
Greenify is more helpful for stopping apps that like to come on after certain events, or stay on after you use them. Like maps for example. You can make it a user app with titanium backup and greenify it so it stays off when you don't need it. Another example, games. Allot of games run on their own and take a toll on your battery. You can hibernate them and make sure when you aren't playing them, they stay off.
But like I said... As far as battery goes...... If your battery is great unrooted, then no need to root for that reason.
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I rooted regardless. Even though my battery life is excellent. I wanted Ad block, and the circular battery percentage without widgets. Maybe a few other things, but I like the control you have with root. So I will always do it.
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I have found that when I leave intelligent voice commands on, android OS keeps eating my battery because the phone never really enters in deep sleep, I guess it's because it needs to be awake for the command to work
When I disable it, the battery really gets improved, with voice commands on I get 1% drop per hour overnight, with it turned off, I am able to get by 8 hours with 0 to 1% drop.
Also, if I have voice off but 3g/4g/wifi on, even if I don't get notifications, my phone do not enter in deep sleep, it goes back to the 1% drop per hour.
On the daily usage, I didn't see much of a difference between localization on neither of the 3 options (high accuracy, battery saving and the other one), but I noticed a slight difference between Google Now on and off.
In the end, I get a great battery life without voice commands and google now, once I got 2 days and a few hours with light to moderate usage (3g and wifi on all the time, almost 4 sot, some browsing, whatsapp, facebook, a few phone calls and photos), but it comes to the point that I could have any other phone to have the basic android function and get a great battery life, the point for which I got the moto x are those great features at the price of some battery, c'est la vie, with all those things on I am still able to get through the day, so I'm really happy with it, even the android OS having a huge battery consumption.
I had to freeze Motorola SLPC service (and related processes) to stop from having so many CPU wakeups. I greenify'ed one or two things but they honestly weren't really responsible for the problem. It's all those damn cpu wakeups. Basically froze all things Moto (except for AD, TC, and Assist) and it seems to have gone away. I even set my network accuracy back to high (some people stated that leaving it on Device Only was the only non-battery killer).
At this point, I'm thinking I'll return the X and keep the N5. The Moto X situation on XDA is looking to become another Rezound situation (where none of the users think there's anything that needs improving on the phone and development is non-existent short of bounties and flamewars).
For the first time, I wish I could have the OEM OS with just a few CM/other ROM cherry picks. As it is now, I don't even have a recovery image on the phone. I could live with that, except that I can't flash anything to the phone and Xposed only goes so far.
Currently can't have dbm in status bar, no Voice+, no encrypted messaging. Moto Assist doesn't turn on BT when in driving mode which is a shame because my car is my BT trusted device, speaking the PIN to unlock my phone seems to just get the voice command sequence stuck..
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So I updated via the leaked OTA 3 days ago and all is well so far. My battery has definitely improved by two fold (doubled). Prior to update my D3 would only go about half a day on light usage. Now it goes past 24 hours easy and could most likely push 36 hours (light use, wifi on 24/7).
However today I actually have been using my device quite a bit. Nothing heavy, really just organizing home screens and other duties of the sort.
So I look into my battery usage and after 6 hours my battery is at 40-50% with the display consuming a large amount of the battery. Brightness is at Automatic and the display itself has been on for 3 hours while using 50% of the battery. Is this normal or should % usage be more dispered between the running programs? I imagine the way battery usage stats work is that there will always be a program at the top with 40-50%... but maybe im (dead) wrong?
Also, how has your battery been since update?
(TL; DR) Display is raping my battery post-update, sup?
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...Battery just hit 5% after 8 hours and 4 hours of display on. It unbelievably dropped from 15% to 5% with no brightness in less than a half hour, oh and I was in airplane mode. Literally all I've been doing since I turned my phone on today is have music playing and tweak my homescreen settings.
On standby the battery kicks ass but wow if I actually want to use my phone, the battery is as good as dead.
Im going to try out the standard battery that came with my D3 tomorrow and see if I get better results. Maybe its just my extended battery that's faulty.
If that fails then there has to be something wrong with the way my display draws juice from the battery... and ill probably have to get a replacement ... fml ... those crappy refurbed phones.
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Battery life for me is mostly improved. I say mostly because in weak coverage areas this thing destroys battery life fast! 20% or more per hour kind of fast. Still better than stock, but not much in weak coverage.
Strong coverage areas, phone is much improved for battery life. Seems to be a baseband issue. Hint hint Moto.
What I have noticed the most, is that my data roaming enabled setting actually sticks now, even if i lose coverage. For me, that was one of the biggest things against this phone. It made my data so impossible to stay connected, it almost wasn't woth having.
I too have the official Moto extended battery, but i still struggle to get 24 hours out of my device with very mild usage. For example, i am at 15 hours now, no wi-fi usage, no bluetooth usage, both off, cdma mode only and display on time of 23 minutes total for that time. I'm now at 15%.
My other phones, 2 Eris, and 1 Inc2, get anywhere from 2.5-4 days on this kind of use. I am thinking about ditching this battery monger for an Inc2 until Moto gets their shnizit together, or CM7 is available via a custom recovery and unlocked bootloader.
I am loving having my data available without needing to recheck the data roaming box 100 times a day, and other fixes. I am glad i used the leaked update, as my phone was close to a brick without it anyhow.
Now all we need is the new soak test update to ensure we're official...my gut tells me we are.
Anyone else having issues with Swype predicting in Spanish after the leaked update was applied? Only happens in one app for me, so far.
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Battery life for me is mostly improved. I say mostly because in weak coverage areas this thing destroys battery life fast! 20% or more per hour kind of fast. Still better than stock, but not much in weak coverage.
Strong coverage areas, phone is much improved for battery life. Seems to be a baseband issue. Hint hint Moto.
What I have noticed the most, is that my data roaming enabled setting actually sticks now, even if i lose coverage. For me, that was one of the biggest things against this phone. It made my data so impossible to stay connected, it almost wasn't woth having.
I too have the official Moto extended battery, but i still struggle to get 24 hours out of my device with very mild usage. For example, i am at 15 hours now, no wi-fi usage, no bluetooth usage, both off, cdma mode only and display on time of 23 minutes total for that time. I'm now at 15%.
My other phones, 2 Eris, and 1 Inc2, get anywhere from 2.5-4 days on this kind of use. I am thinking about ditching this battery monger for an Inc2 until Moto gets their shnizit together, or CM7 is available via a custom recovery and unlocked bootloader.
I am loving having my data available without needing to recheck the data roaming box 100 times a day, and other fixes. I am glad i used the leaked update, as my phone was close to a brick without it anyhow.
Now all we need is the new soak test update to ensure we're official...my gut tells me we are.
Anyone else having issues with Swype predicting in Spanish after the leaked update was applied? Only happens in one app for me, so far.
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Lol the thing is I live in NYC so there are no weak coverage areas except the subway and I put my phone in airplane mode during those times.
Im sure we wont have any problems updating when the new OTA hits (whether through legit ways or otherwise)
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The battery icon is misleading after the update. 60% - 70% reads more like 80% or 90%
Bobbar said:
The battery icon is misleading after the update. 60% - 70% reads more like 80% or 90%
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Would another battery widget fix that?
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Would another battery widget fix that?
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Yes.
The battery stats (system reported percentage) appear unchanged, it's just the rendering of the stock icon that seems to be different.
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I use Battery Circle, as it reports in increments of 1%. I'm sure there are others.
Post-update, my battery usage has been noticeably improved. Before updating, it seemed that my battery drained at about the same rate regardless of how much or how little I actually used the phone (excepting major battery hogs, like fancy games or navigation). Now, the drop, when not being used, is significantly slower compared to before. Battery drain when actually using the phone seems about the same. So, overall, I'd say the processes like phone idle and cell standby have been optimized to great success.
-SR-
PS: "Display" now consistently lands at the top of the usage list, as is to be expected, and is much more believable than before the update.
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Post-update, my battery usage has been noticeably improved. Before updating, it seemed that my battery drained at about the same rate regardless of how much or how little I actually used the phone (excepting major battery hogs, like fancy games or navigation). Now, the drop, when not being used, is significantly slower compared to before. Battery drain when actually using the phone seems about the same. So, overall, I'd say the processes like phone idle and cell standby have been optimized to great success.
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PS: "Display" now consistently lands at the top of the usage list, as is to be expected, and is much more believable than before the update.
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Totally agree. My battery seems about the same if I actually use my phone but on standby my phone lasts like a champ.
I tried using my standard battery today and it lasted half as long as my extended one. Still, I doubt there's anything physically wrong with my phone... I guess batteries just suck all around lol
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Battery still sucks for me after update display is raping it for me as well..
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Anyone else having issues with Swype predicting in Spanish after the leaked update was applied? Only happens in one app for me, so far.
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Yeah I noticed that too. If you go into Settings under Keyboard and Language, you can change it back to English.
After the update and debloat my battery was still struggling so I froze the task manager built into blur with TB and it seemed to have improved my battery just throwing that out there...
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After the update and debloat my battery was still struggling so I froze the task manager built into blur with TB and it seemed to have improved my battery just throwing that out there...
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Any repercussions? I heard freezing the task manager can have adverse effects on your phone. Also by how much did your battery increase, Im trying to see if taking the risk is worth it. The app is called taskmanager.apk I assume?
thanks
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Any repercussions? I heard freezing the task manager can have adverse effects on your phone. Also by how much did your battery increase, Im trying to see if taking the risk is worth it. The app is called taskmanager.apk I assume?
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No repercussions yet its been froze for about a day now and im getting about an extra 10% or so my battery meter shows
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Ok so I froze the social location apk and can't believe how much my battery life improved...
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After the OTA update, I went from getting 8-12hrs of use to 2days easy.
That's with 85% left.
Also, I love that the battery symbol is fixed now. It pissed me off seeing the battery lose a bar when it hit 94%. Threw me off so bad.
The battery on my Note is decent, giving me 2-3 days of moderate use or roughly a full day with heavy use.
Problem is when the battery decreases to around 40% & lower, the battery drains like anything even when not used.
Simply idling the phone would lose roughly 5-6% over an hour.
When the battery is around 20% it will easily run down to 10% and less over a period of a few hours when doing NOTHING.
Yet when then battery is at 80 & 90% it will lose around 5-6% battery over many hours.
Here is the proof, I took a screenshot of the battery information & you will clearly see rapid drops in battery life when at 50% and less.
On the last 20% it goes down even faster, and this is with NO use at all.
I hope this is fixed in ICS as it's a serious problem.
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Pretty flat at the end there, even while being used.
I have seen that reported elsewhere, but not seen it on my own Note. I have just settled it into a new pattern after rooting and deleting the stats, so I am not certain right now, but I think it remains fairly even over the whole cycle.
I am not sure I could use is as little as you appear to have however!
I've yet to get my Note battery to last until 2 days, and not even a full 24 hours (almost heavy usage on data network).
So I guess that's good enough that yours lasted for almost 3 days!
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I've yet to get my Note battery to last until 2 days, and not even a full 24 hours (almost heavy usage on data network).
So I guess that's good enough that yours lasted for almost 3 days!
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Haha, don't get me wrong, I think the battery is great.
I'm only wondering why it goes so quickly when it's at 40% and under...
This seems odd. I'd say I'm having the same issue (the poor battery performance).
I've been trying to analyse this but don't have much time to do it right. From what I'm seeing the battery usage graph looks legit. Phone seems to enter deep sleep states. Nonetheless Note seems to drain the battery a lot faster in deep sleep than my Galaxy 3 does, which is odd considering Note having 3 times larger battery capacity.
What seems odd too is extremely slow suspend/resume cycles (e.g. the time it takes for the phone to turn the screen off/show lock screen). It takes more than a second on my Note to show the lock screen. I've seen other report this too. A friend of mine shocked a salesman on a Samsung booth lately when he showed him that. Galaxy S2 is thunderfast, while Galaxy Note takes ages to resume. My Galaxy 3 takes <0.5s. I've looked into the `dmesg` output for some hints. I'm no guru in this, but `ehci` seems to be taking some time to suspend/resume. This also converges with my other observation - Galaxy Note notoriously locks up when playing with usb host. I've tried couple of keyboard/mouse on usb - some of them do work, some of them don't (I can see 'Mouse/Keyboard' connected on the statusbar but there's no mouse pointer nor keyboard input is possible; after some time it's most likely to hard lock the system).
Thus I would suspect buggy usb host/otg hardware/driver that's leading to such a poor battery performance. But hey, maybe it's just me and my theories. Nevertheless something must be broken.
My battery is terrible.
With soe usage, mostly data, I'll drop from 100% to 60% in 3 to 4 hours.
Im on rocket rom.
Only 1 heavy gmail syncing and 3 other gmails with barely an email per week and facebook syncing.
And microsoft exchange calendar syncing (no email syncing).
No twitter.
No other apps.
But im on H+ most of the time.
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I know HSPA (H+) eats battery because I turned off my data for 2 days and battery latest me 1.5 days.
CorruptedSanity said:
My battery is terrible.
With soe usage, mostly data, I'll drop from 100% to 60% in 3 to 4 hours.
Im on rocket rom.
Only 1 heavy gmail syncing and 3 other gmails with barely an email per week and facebook syncing.
And microsoft exchange calendar syncing (no email syncing).
No twitter.
No other apps.
But im on H+ most of the time.
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I know HSPA (H+) eats battery because I turned off my data for 2 days and battery latest me 1.5 days.
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I found gmail syncing kills the battery very very fast. try to disable auto sync and see if that helps
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I found gmail syncing kills the battery very very fast. try to disable auto sync and see if that helps
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Why in the world would I do that?
Its 2012. I need/want my data pushed.
Turning off auto sync would be like me going back to 2004.
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Why in the world would I do that?
Its 2012. I need/want my data pushed.
Turning off auto sync would be like me going back to 2004.
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I just made a suggestion, that's all. I'm trying to help you save battery. If you want all the bells and whistles and want battery then going for the extended battery is your route. I don't think you will get much more from the standard.
I have had troubles with battery life since I bought this beauty. I have been trying several Roms and Kernels, and none seem to make much difference. I also tried selecting among governors but still no better luck.
When I have 20-24hrs battery life it is very good!
The only thing that allowed me to save some was to reduce lcd intensity, and use the Note in dark environments.
Maybe I am using it more than the average user, but with all the opportunities it provides, I can hardly refrain myself from using it.
My typical use is:
- Radio and surf when going to work and home,
- Email and surf every hour at work
- About 10-20mn phone calls
- Listening to music when I can be alone working (1-2 hrs each day)
- Tablet use when at home.
Do you consider this to be a very heavy usage of the phone ?
I have just had my Note for a few days. The biggest battery eater in my case is WiFi. If I switch it off, the discharge is quite acceptable (a couple of percent during the night). I am not deep into Android internals, but it seems my 5-year-old Palm TX had much better WiFi power management than my brand new Note!
BTW, I am on a stock ROM and have disabled auto-sync.
Have you tried wiping battery stats? Let the phone completely die then charge it without interruption until it's been on 100% for an hour then boot to CWM and wipe battery stats
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I just made a suggestion, that's all. I'm trying to help you save battery. If you want all the bells and whistles and want battery then going for the extended battery is your route. I don't think you will get much more from the standard.
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I thank you.
I wasn't lashing out at you. I know you were trying to help.
It was directed to the R&D at Samsung.
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Maybe I am using it more than the average user, but with all the opportunities it provides, I can hardly refrain myself from using it.
My typical use is:
- Radio and surf when going to work and home,
- Email and surf every hour at work
- About 10-20mn phone calls
- Listening to music when I can be alone working (1-2 hrs each day)
- Tablet use when at home.
Do you consider this to be a very heavy usage of the phone ?
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I do not consider the battery able to cope with the features.
I'm on H+. why wont I have everything auto syncing?
Battery should support the phone features.
Rght now I'm always connected to a power source via USB or car charger or home charger.
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Why in the world would I do that?
Its 2012. I need/want my data pushed.
Turning off auto sync would be like me going back to 2004.
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well... then stop complaining about your battery drainage...
The other guy were simply gave you a advice as to why your battery were used up so fast....
mustang2012 said:
well... then stop complaining about your battery drainage...
The other guy were simply gave you a advice as to why your battery were used up so fast....
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I can complain. I paid $750 for it.
The bells and whistles are there but the battery can't cope. Major flaw in battery implementation.
I already told the other guy i appreciate his help but that defeats the purpose of such an advanced and sophisticated mobile phone.
I had a SE symbian for 3 years then several HTC WM 6 mobiles, then a year of HTC Desire then an iPhone 4 for 1.5 years. I'll head towards the best regardless of brand.
Quit being a fanboy.
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well... then stop complaining about your battery drainage...
The other guy were simply gave you a advice as to why your battery were used up so fast....
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I am not complaining about the battery drainage per-se.
My previous phone was a Nokia N900, which I used all day long for calls, mails, radio listening, ssh to my home computer, etc... and I knew well that I could not use it for more than a day without charging, sometimes even less.
The phone battery was never advertized as being able to cope with such usage, and only announced battery times for 2G/3G calls.
When I first read announcements about the N7000, I read that Samsung decided to increase the battery power to make it last 2 days, which looked nice to me.
Now I have hardly 13 hours of battery time with my usage (see my previous post) and I want to know:
- is it a normal behaviour for the phone?
- is there a way to make things better with the same hardware?
- do I really need to lower my expectations?
If the answer to the last question is yes, I will be of course disappointed but I can cope with it, as I did with my previous phones. As CorruptedSanity already mentioned, my only complains are to the Samsung techs (or advertizers) and not to any member of this forum who are usually able to help beyond my needs.
I hope that screen optimizations will come that will increase the battery life while I use the phone, but my expectations are low.
You can expect around 5 hrs of screen time based on peoples reports here
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You can expect around 5 hrs of screen time based on peoples reports here
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Yup, that's the killer IMO. I can leave WiFi enabled all day, or use the phone for a couple of hours of calls and a few hours of 'screen time'. Not both!
Before rooting and killing bloatware, I could do neither.
Greetings,
So as many of you may know the battery life on the Optimus 2x is terrible. with lots of mixed reports. some ppl 24 hours some ppl 12 hours and even some saying 36 hours. i guess theres a few with like 4-6 hours.. Like me, i find my battery lasts roughly 6-8 hours. when im using the fone for why i purchased it. if im trying to SAVE battery. i can squeeze 10-12 hours out of it.
however, this lead me to think everyone who is trying to save battery finds it usually involves turning off everything u can do without. disabling alot of stuff etc.meaning, ROMS that perform well with everything disabled, would be recommended over those that are not. yet these roms that dont perform so hot under lock down, may actually perform better than the very same rom that out lasted it but with everything on.
what i want to know is, which is the better rom that allows me to have everything ON. im talking
wifi 3g data gps (prob not BT who uses that anyway? j/k) rotation, display brightness, motion sensor, gyro + the works.
which ROM would give the superior battery life over the others, with that in mind. EVERYTHING available.
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Because im sick of having to look @ my fone when i want to do something and think. well its locked down i have to quick menu or widget enable data, turn on 3g. or wireless. oh now i need gps. watch it chew juice turning on. use it. then turn it off again. seems pointless.
i want all my fone all the time. its discouraging when i know i should be using my phone for alot more. yet i dont because im so worried about trying to conserve battery, im over it. i dont care if it runs out of battery in 6 hours. it was going to anyway, at least i can do anything with it at anytime. withing that timeframe.
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DISCUSS!
i think ill start by disabling the "% and battery icon " haha
This is a "which is the best ROM" kind of thread and it'll probably be closed by a moderator as these are not allowed here ^^
Anyways, to answer your question I'd say Temasek's CM7 has proven to be the most stable, battery friendly ROM in the past year for me. However, as functional as it is, I find it boring when compared to CM9/CM10 or ICS. Tonyp's PA 12 is another good choice, even with its few flaws (no hwa, for example).
I guess you won't find a definitive answer for this as the experience varies greatly from one user to another. There are way too many variables that make it different for everyone such as the location, the capabilities and strength of each carriers' network, how you have configured your device, the apps installed on it, etc.
In short: try yourself and see which ROM suits your needs the best.
ive tried most the roms on here. but most the time i was disabling everything to see how long the batt would last.
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ive tried most the roms on here. but most the time i was disabling everything to see how long the batt would last.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34748193&postcount=10115
Don't know how people get such a awesome battery I disabled GPS no net on 2g mode brightness lowest no apps installed no syncing..but my battery drains like 6 to 10% in a hour Even without using the phone screen off brand new original battery also ril baseband matching and network full 0% without signal don't know what's the cause flashed every ROM and ever kernel seems this problem is with phone as most of us never get good standby on lg optimus 2x ...
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Even I removed memory card read in some forum that some corrupted files make your media server to scan again and again..still no success
I dont have everything disabled - for example there is no need to turn off GPS... If its enabled it doesnt mean that it will drain your battery whole the time. It will drain your battery, only when there will be need to use GPS - for example when you open Maps, or application for navigation, tracking and so on...
I think that wifi and mobile data always enabled drains your battery the most. If you could live with mobile data disabled when you dont need it, you could have wifi enabled all the time with advanced settings = turn off when screen is off. Then you could have a lot longer battery life. I dont have wifi enabled all the time and if I dont have time for touching my phone, it could last for cca 3-4 days on CM7. If I have time, it will drop to 1-2 days.
I have off everything so it should last longer than why it doesn't even I deleted Google backup transport.apk as in s3 forum it was mentioned this file keeps draining your battery..Hope somebody have a fix presently on clean nvflash goodbye ROM by Stephan with 2nd core off and screen off frequency set to lowest 216
That's why I bought for the 2x and 4x extended batteries so I can use the phone like it supposed to be used. I also have a external battery tmas back up. Battery life on android period is bad. Ios or windwos phone 7 and 8 just have way more superior battery life. It is just a fact we android people have to deal with. It sucks.
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Don't know I just feel atleast standby battery life as mentioned by lg for optimus 2x is 500 hours means around 20 days...atleast it should run a day
Yes the battery will last that long if the phone has no apps installed that utilize either data nor location services. My 2x gets great battery life if airplane mode and not touched it will like barely dropped battery at all but as soon as airplane mode is of battery goes to hell especially if u use data over cellular instead wifi. Same in the 4x. Android is the biggest battery hog period. My windows phone 7.5 with the same social apps and location apps and email set up last a whole day in the same usage pattern where my androids not even making it a half day. It is just that bad. Now with extended battery I get like 13 14 hours out of 2x or 4x not great that's on a 4400 mah battery for the 4x where I get on a 1600mah on Windows Phone 23 or more hours. That's the main part I hate about Android. The battery life is just that bad.
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Don't know I just feel atleast standby battery life as mentioned by lg for optimus 2x is 500 hours means around 20 days...atleast it should run a day
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yeah whats up with that, the box says "stand by battery life 500 hours. hah thats like how long? and talk time on the fone 10 hours. really. it cant even last 10 hours without being on a call how can it last 10 on a call... duH!
so stupid. android battery is just so bad.
how did u get 2days out ya battery? thats like impossible unless i put mine in AEROPLANE mode. then i have IMMORTAL BATTERY!!
u got extended battery. im still using 2 "1500mha's."
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yeah whats up with that, the box says "stand by battery life 500 hours. hah thats like how long? and talk time on the fone 10 hours. really. it cant even last 10 hours without being on a call how can it last 10 on a call... duH!
so stupid. android battery is just so bad.
how did u get 2days out ya battery? thats like impossible unless i put mine in AEROPLANE mode. then i have IMMORTAL BATTERY!!
u got extended battery. im still using 2 "1500mha's."
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Sadly android sadly really is a battery hog. Specially on data it eats thought the battery in freaking no time. I bought extended batteries and they make the phone usable but also bigger but at least I can use it now without having it on the charger every freaking damn minute. I am still thinking about using my windows phone 7 as daily phone again. Because battery is just so much better.
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dante501 said:
Sadly android sadly really is a battery hog. Specially on data it eats thought the battery in freaking no time. I bought extended batteries and they make the phone usable but also bigger but at least I can use it now without having it on the charger every freaking damn minute. I am still thinking about using my windows phone 7 as daily phone again. Because battery is just so much better.
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thanks for the feedback. yeah having it on charge to do anything is such a crock!.
i hear you. this girl i know has a windows7 fone, she says its very basic but the battery life is great. i think she said standby almost a week. like 6 days, no using. maybe txting i think..
so much better.
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Don't know people posted around 2 days standby with wifi and games don't know they edited or not...I don't remember that I don't charge by phone in less than 12 hours..I agree with you if you don't touch your phone than also it drains in 10 hours
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Actually I'm die hard fan of Android but surely would try windows don't know what's with lg phones Samsung Android have awesome standby and great battery life my cousin have Samsung s advance it's not add speedy as 2x but battery life is 10 times batter better than 2x ...I think the problem is the processor lg just wanted to enter it's name in world record book and released before proPer testing ...
you may be right sir
Don't know my best stand by time was with Django Manouch 1.7 rom, without any extra apps instaled and using it only when needed, the phone managed 8 hours before reaching 10% of battery life remaining.
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yeah whats up with that, the box says "stand by battery life 500 hours. hah thats like how long? and talk time on the fone 10 hours. really. it cant even last 10 hours without being on a call how can it last 10 on a call... duH!
so stupid. android battery is just so bad.
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i think it's calculated like this
500 hrs standby OR 10 hours call time OR 3 hrs Wi-fi with screen on etc... not all together
some battery related apps are showing you exact time you have left for each purpose (surfing on wi-fi/3G, gaming, standby, listening music,...)
R0B3RTF1SH3R said:
how did u get 2days out ya battery? thats like impossible unless i put mine in AEROPLANE mode. then i have IMMORTAL BATTERY!!
u got extended battery. im still using 2 "1500mha's."
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i have stock battery that came with the phone... phone is 9 months old...
my standby time is superb (1% loss in 8 hours over night with wi-fi off) so if you calculate it with simple maths - i can get some 700-800 hrs standby in theory (but i think noone leaves his phone untouched for a week )
my 2 cents...
wow, i put mine in 2g / data off / gps of everything off. wifi off. sleep it still be flat in 10 hours. lose 10% per hour.
Have same 10% per hour that too on brand new stock battery from lg service center
Yeah yeah I know its got Stamina Mode BUT! is anyone a little worried like me that the battery is 2330 and with a 5 inch screen and all those pixels its going to drain pretty fast. Todays phones with 720 screens and less pixels aren't the best. I'm still getting the phone but anyone else think we aren't in for glorious battery life here. (Stamina Mode may be the perfect fix for this though)
im hoping we get some battery reviews in soon. i have yet to see any real in depth reviews for the battery yet.
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im hoping we get some battery reviews in soon. i have yet to see any real in depth reviews for the battery yet.
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Yeah, thats the part of the reviews I will be taken proper interest in.
Coming from the One X, I'm not too worried about battery life as I'd be fairly confident it could last a bit longer than that phone. I charge my phone every night so once I get a day out of it thats fine.
I would like to see a review on the battery life though.
2330 AMH is really good though
I have 3100mah on my Galaxy Note 2 right now. Pretty huge battery - was supposed to last 3 days - it barely lasts 48 hours of "normal use". Not worried about Xperia Z, if 3100mah can't supply more than 5-6 screen time or 48+ hours - no battery will. If it lasts 2 full days, i'll be more than happy.
From what I've heard it's actually surprisingly good. Keep your brightness in check and you'll be fine. Both the Snapdragon S4 Pro and the MDM9215 are pretty efficient chips. The S4 Pro has (according to Qualcomm at least) a pretty high performance per watt so should do pretty well with relatively little power use.
From the 1st review:
"The Z’s battery-saving Stamina mode turns off data when the screen is off, boosting standby time by a factor of four, and we found it hardly lost any charge overnight – around 1 per cent, or none at all."
Now that's interesting.
Early tests not so encouraging. Worse than the nexus 4. Of course screen brightness etc aren't known at this point.
Let's hope it gets better with more charge cycles etc.
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Doesn't look too good. 9 hours with 3h screen time... but the screen drained 42% of the battery so i guess it must have been under some heavy stress. Hope to see some more tests/reviews asap.
yeah, all we can do is wait for the NDA to break. I really hate waiting.
hope the battery's up to scratch because i haven't been this excited for a phone in a long time.
When do nda normally break? Seeing as it should release in some territories in a few weeks, I'm surprised there haven't been more reviews. Hoping to see some from the big sites any day now, especially the verge, gsmarena etc, as I'm really interested in battery life. Would need about 3.5 hours screen on time on mid brightness on 4g over say 15 hours off charger to work for me. Guess I could make do with 3 hours, but whichever of the new 5 inch phones does this will get my money. Come on Sony, don't disappoint me, cause I love the look of this phone!
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A) reviews take time
B) It seems as though the CES units were not final... so the final product may not have been available until very recently.
Sony stores/reps are starting to get their demo units (which should be final hardware) so hopefully more reviews soon.
BTW NDA is usually to keep the details of the product hidden until Sony is ready to release. The phone has obviously been officially announced so this is not an NDA thing, just the fact that they don't want reviews done on inferior pre-release units.
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mattman83 said:
BTW NDA is usually to keep the details of the product hidden until Sony is ready to release. The phone has obviously been officially announced so this is not an NDA thing, just the fact that they don't want reviews done on inferior pre-release units.
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And by looking at some threads here - it's perfectly understandable. People freaking out about things that are not even present in the real device like older software, lower benchmarks due to debugging firmware etc. But i'm really dying to see the battery life... if it's non-removable and it won't last 48+ hours of normal use, than it's not good. If it won't last 24+ hours of normal use than i guess i might reconsider ( and by normal use i mean texting, calling, maybe some music - not playing with it every second, that's reserved for few first days )
That screen shot over page with 9hr 33mins battery life. I didn't see the sign for power saver/battery saving mode being used. I mean surely the phone has to last a day atleast under moderate usage. I mean it has a bigger battery than the S3 and that lasted over a day on moderate usage and the cpu in the Z is supposed to be more power efficient is it not.
I also think battery life is a subjective matter for example me and my GF both had the note 2 and I set her phone up exactly how I set mine up with the brightness etc and she was getting 4days - 5days 20hours battery life and mine was getting 1day 20hours - 2days 23hours, why? because I use my phone a damn site more than she does and the variation is because some days I use more phone more than other days so some days the battery will last more and some days it will last less.
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From the 1st review:
"The Z’s battery-saving Stamina mode turns off data when the screen is off, boosting standby time by a factor of four, and we found it hardly lost any charge overnight – around 1 per cent, or none at all."
Now that's interesting.
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Well that's not reinventing the wheel, most battery saving apps like Juice Defender do that. However I need a stable IMAP connection and not fire up the screen constantly to check emails.
There is nothing special in making the phone last longer with software trickery, it's like making yourself last longer through thinking about your grandma.
A good battery and battery efficient hardware is needed.
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Well that's not reinventing the wheel, most battery saving apps like Juice Defender do that. However I need a stable IMAP connection and not fire up the screen constantly to check emails.
There is nothing special in making the phone last longer with software trickery, it's like making yourself last longer through thinking about your grandma.
A good battery and battery efficient hardware is needed.
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Juice defender kills apps but issue with this is apps relaunch itself and then juice defender kicks in and kills it again and ends up in an infinite loop of killing and reviving of processes. The difference with stamina mode is that it was officially made by manufacturer within the ROM. So when you set it to get killed when screen is off there's something within the framework of the android core which they programmed to really halt the operation of the app/process and not just killing it. So in the end it is totally stopped
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That screen shot over page with 9hr 33mins battery life. I didn't see the sign for power saver/battery saving mode being used. I mean surely the phone has to last a day atleast under moderate usage. I mean it has a bigger battery than the S3 and that lasted over a day on moderate usage and the cpu in the Z is supposed to be more power efficient is it not.
I also think battery life is a subjective matter for example me and my GF both had the note 2 and I set her phone up exactly how I set mine up with the brightness etc and she was getting 4days - 5days 20hours battery life and mine was getting 1day 20hours - 2days 23hours, why? because I use my phone a damn site more than she does and the variation is because some days I use more phone more than other days so some days the battery will last more and some days it will last less.
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Well that's not reinventing the wheel, most battery saving apps like Juice Defender do that. However I need a stable IMAP connection and not fire up the screen constantly to check emails.
There is nothing special in making the phone last longer with software trickery, it's like making yourself last longer through thinking about your grandma.
A good battery and battery efficient hardware is needed.
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The thing with the S4 pro is that it can go both ways as far as efficient hardware is concerned. I think it has something to do with thermal insulation.
The nexus 4 and it's 2100ish mAh has notoriously poor battery times - in my testing, tapping out at just under 3 hours screen usage in around 8-10 hours of total use (everything stock + 4.2.1).
My padfone 2, on the other hand, with the same battery/screen size is a battery champ - regularly get 5 to 5.5 hours screen usage over a period of 18-20 hours. It beats out all my previous phones for battery life (minus the note 2), including the GS3 which had good battery life itself.
And no, i don't belive in disabling google now and push notifications. Without them the nexus 4 does better but the padfone 2 and its s4 pro do brilliant with them on.
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Well that's not reinventing the wheel, most battery saving apps like Juice Defender do that. However I need a stable IMAP connection and not fire up the screen constantly to check emails.
There is nothing special in making the phone last longer with software trickery, it's like making yourself last longer through thinking about your grandma.
A good battery and battery efficient hardware is needed.
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No argument here - although if it actually does work - then it's a welcome trick. Juice Defender - imo - is useless. It never saved any battery for me - quite the contrary, constant app killing in the background resulted in worse battery life on my Galaxy S/Note devices, so i'm curious how will Sony implement such a feature.
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No argument here - although if it actually does work - then it's a welcome trick. Juice Defender - imo - is useless. It never saved any battery for me - quite the contrary, constant app killing in the background resulted in worse battery life on my Galaxy S/Note devices, so i'm curious how will Sony implement such a feature.
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Why would you guys use JD for killing apps? That doesn't make sense. Its main use is to manage radios etc. depending on battery & screen status. Anyway didn't do much for me so switched from that to Tasker.
Hey all. I just got my s6 active via insurance upgrade about 5 days ago.. I expected more battery from what I read... I unplugged it this morning at 525 and by 625 I was at 92%. Is this normal? The battery screen doesn't add up to the battery % lost. I'm just trying to figure out how everyone is getting this great battery. Is it possible they sent me a referbed with a used battery? Many days/weeks of running the phone will it take in order for the battery to even out?
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Hey all. I just got my s6 active via insurance upgrade about 5 days ago.. I expected more battery from what I read... I unplugged it this morning at 525 and by 625 I was at 92%. Is this normal? The battery screen doesn't add up to the battery % lost. I'm just trying to figure out how everyone is getting this great battery. Is it possible they sent me a referbed with a used battery? Many days/weeks of running the phone will it take in order for the battery to even out?
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Seems like your phone doesn't go into deep sleep. There is a rogue app that is probably causing your phone not going into deep sleep. Find the app cure the problem.
Yes it does take many cycles for the battery to reach optimal battery life
Nothing keeping it alive.... Cpu sleep time is the majority of the time. I do use my phone heavily. But i get about the same life as I did with my s5 active..
Same here. I "upgraded" from a 6S on the premise of much better battery life and waterproof without the need of a LifeProof case.
So far I'm getting about the same, maybe less life out of it than my iPhone. I've been out of the Android game for almost 2 years, what can I do to fix this?
Based on battery tests and whatnot, I should be losing around 6-7% per hour, instead of the 10-12% I'm losing now, about on par with an iPhone with half the battery size.
Any help is appreciated.
EDIT: Noob mistake, forgot to mention I'm on the forced 5.1.1 version.
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theking_13 said:
Same here. I "upgraded" from a 6S on the premise of much better battery life and waterproof without the need of a LifeProof case.
So far I'm getting about the same, maybe less life out of it than my iPhone. I've been out of the Android game for almost 2 years, what can I do to fix this?
Based on battery tests and whatnot, I should be losing around 6-7% per hour, instead of the 10-12% I'm losing now, about on par with an iPhone with half the battery size.
Any help is appreciated.
EDIT: Noob mistake, forgot to mention I'm on the forced 5.1.1 version.
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The 5.1.1 version was a battery hog for me too. Before it, i would make it til bedtime with about 30-40% battery of moderate usage. During the 5.1.1 upgrade i was at 40-50% before lunch! Had to charge twice daily. Now with Marshmallow, i'm back up to all day battery. Even lately being a heavy user, it'll generally last all day. I might be at 5% by bedtime, but it'll last all day.
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The 5.1.1 version was a battery hog for me too. Before it, i would make it til bedtime with about 30-40% battery of moderate usage. During the 5.1.1 upgrade i was at 40-50% before lunch! Had to charge twice daily. Now with Marshmallow, i'm back up to all day battery. Even lately being a heavy user, it'll generally last all day. I might be at 5% by bedtime, but it'll last all day.
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How much SOT do you get?
I lose about 6% per hour if I watch videos on wifi, however I lose 1% every 6-7 minutes if I'm using my phone for anything else.
What system process is killing the battery? There's no reason I shouldn't get over 12 hours of SOT from daily usage.
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One process that I have noticed in the past that will crush your battery is the Microsoft exchange server..
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That's what I'm talking about. I used to freeze basically all non vanilla processes back in the G2 days with Titanium Backup, how can I freeze the Exchange server? It doesn't show up under "Applications" in settings.
Currently on 6.0.1.
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How much SOT do you get?
I lose about 6% per hour if I watch videos on wifi, however I lose 1% every 6-7 minutes if I'm using my phone for anything else.
What system process is killing the battery? There's no reason I shouldn't get over 12 hours of SOT from daily usage.
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I don't know how to say this without sounding condescending, i don't mean to, but you're insane if you think you should get anywhere near 12 hours SOT. Let alone "no reason I shouldn't get over 12 hours of SOT". I doubt I could get 12 hours SOT with 2 batteries.
I average 5-6 hours SOT which i think is actually pretty awesome, (And that's with the dark theme). I honestly don't count battery percentages and compare videos to surfing/browsing. I just know that i can use my phone all day and I don't have to charge it until bedtime.
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I average 5-6 hours SOT which i think is actually pretty awesome, (And that's with the dark theme).... I just know that i can use my phone all day and I don't have to charge it until bedtime.
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Their web browsing test is a more realistic expectation, which is why I said 12. They got 16 hours, which I don't doubt, but this phone draining comparably to a 4+ year old HTC? Not at all impressed.
I have screenshots where I tested their results vs actual daily usage and they were very close for every phone.
But no worries, I'm glad you're satisfied with your phone's performance.
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Their web browsing test is a more realistic expectation, which is why I said 12. They got 16 hours, which I don't doubt, but this phone draining comparably to a 4+ year old HTC? Not at all impressed.
I have screenshots where I tested their results vs actual daily usage and they were very close for every phone.
But no worries, I'm glad you're satisfied with your phone's performance.
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What web browsing test are you refering to? I'd like to run the same test and see what i get. Almost nobody gets over 6 hours....
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...-how-much-screen-time-you-getting-charge.html
A few new phones have come out with massive batteries, but still not 12 hours SOT. One guy with a 10Ah zerolemon on his note 4 was able to get 16 hours (unverified), but that's the best i've ever heard.
http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-galaxy-s6-active-battery-life-test/
The One X, S3, LG G2, and iPhone 6 & 6S web browsing results were great representations of what I could expect as far as smartphone battery goes. I've had more phones than I can count, but those were the ones I kept the longest and remember the results off the top of my head.
I can find my old One X SOT screenshots to further prove my point.
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theking_13 said:
http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-galaxy-s6-active-battery-life-test/
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This makes no sense to me. In their test, the battery lasted longer playing videos, than web surfing? Something is off here. I've never seen a phone have more than 6 hours SOT, ever (with the exception of extended batteries). Maybe if the phone was in extreme battery saver mode and the screen was at the lowest setting possible, and it was only on 3g, it might be possible to get 6 hours. I'm not calling you a liar, or the article you posted a lie, i just have to believe something else is going on. If i was to get 12+ hours of SOT, for me, that would be equivlent to the phone lasting me all work week.
I hope you get your battery life figured out, but i have to believe we're on different pages here about something. There was an update pushed out this morning, maybe it will help a little.
Not getting this "awesome" battery life??
Yes, this is due to less CPU usage and videos/movies are not almost entirely white.
I looped a couple of YouTube movies and left the S6 Active running all night at 50% brightness with only wifi on. I woke up, 8 or so hours of SOT, and the battery has 59% left. This leads me to believe it's a system app, more than likely a Samsung one, since all of my other Android phones don't have this issue.
I'll post up actual pictures when I get home, I'm back on my iPhone.
You haven't been here long, which is fine, but trust me when I say that there's something draining the battery. A G2 with a 3000mAh battery lasted over 9 hours consistently with data on, the S6A should have no problem matching that.
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Hello I have recently purchased an used S6 active gsm unlockrd with android 5.1. This is my first day with it I still don't know about the battery stats anyway I would like to know if I will get improvement in marshmallow. What are the advantages. Also since at the s6 and s6 edge the marshmallow update improved the camera speed. I would like to know if it will improve also the camera speed. Thanks
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theking_13 said:
Yes, this is due to less CPU usage and videos/movies are not almost entirely white.
I looped a couple of YouTube movies and left the S6 Active running all night at 50% battery life with only wifi on. I woke up, 8 or so hours of SOT, and the battery has 59% left. This leads me to believe it's a system app, more than likely a Samsung one, since all of my other Android phones don't have this issue.
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You haven't been here long, which is fine, but trust me when I say that there's something draining the battery. A G2 with a 3000mAh battery lasted over 9 hours consistently with data on, the S6A should have no problem matching that.
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Hmmm, maybe i'm just considering real world use instead of ideal conditions. Kinda like how i'm supposed to get 35 mpg in my car, but actually only get about 26-27.
When i was on 5.1.1 and had insane battery drainage, all of my research and testing said it was kernel related. I just stuck it out and waited for marshmallow, and now my battery is back to acceptable to me.
Keep us updated if you figure it out, even though i'm relatively happy with my battery life, i'm always happy to get more.
P.S. I've actually been here longer than you, so i'm not sure if that was directed at me. You are way more active and most likely way more software savvy than i am, but i've been here a long time.
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captaingowa said:
That's really impressive.
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Yeah he gained 9% battery by leaving his phone on all night, lol. I kid, maybe i'm just reading it wrong.
"left running all night at 50% battery life....... I woke up, and the battery has 59% left"
Not getting this "awesome" battery life??
I meant brightness, too many ideas at once haha. I'm posting actual pictures in a second, and will keep the phone running while I'm at work.
It has to do with a Samsung "feature", I've turned off most of them from settings. Next will be disabling packages.
It sucks that we don't have root, it seems like an AOSP Rom would net us the battery life that we should get.
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